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Michigan Cities See Placemaking as the Way to a Brighter Future
3:23 PM PST on November 28, 2011
There's no consensus in the urban planning profession — or in public opinion more generally — about how to handle declining cities like Detroit.
All sorts of solutions have been proposed, ranging from the outlandish (making Detroit a "skyscraper ruins park") to the more widely accepted (converting vacant land into urban agriculture).
But lately Michigan leaders have seized on a strategy that may be the most promising yet: placemaking.
From newspaper columnists to business executives, from theDepartment of Transportation and Governor Rick Snyder, Wolverines of all stripes seem to be coming to the conclusion that creating vibrant, walkable urban places is perhaps as important to the future of the state as the auto industry was to its past.
Leading this philosophical sea change is a nonprofit group representing the state's incorporated cities and suburbs: the Michigan Municipal League. The League recently published a manifesto for the state's renewal titled "The Economics of Place." (They also started a Streetsblog Network blog by the same name.)
League CEO and Economics of Place author Dan Gilmartin explains, studies have shown that 65 percent of college-educated young people look, first, for an attractive place to live and, second, for a job.
"We've spent a lot of time in the last several decades disinvesting in our cities, and all of a sudden that's what makes you competitive," Gilmartin said.
Creating places that young people find vibrant, exciting and attractive is essential to the state's health, Gilmartin said on the blog:
It started several years ago, in exploring what it will take to return Michigan to greatness. We looked high and low and came to believe with absolute certainty that our future depends on our ability to compete for talent. And as we dug deeper, we found that "talent" (young, college educated, creative people, often entrepreneurs) demands great places. To them, an absolute prerequisite is a vibrant urban center that appeals on an emotional level. They want to live and work where they feel something — connected, challenged, inspired, excited, free and effectual. These are 21st century communities.
You just don't get that in a subdivision thirty miles outside the city center, no matter how nicely the lawn is manicured. Don't get me wrong, many people feel wonderful in that setting too, but for this key demographic, the urban experience is paramount.
The League is taking its "Eight Assets for 21st Century Communities" to struggling places around the state. These eight assets include a wide variety of interventions — entrepreneurship and multiculturalism, for example — but sustainable transportation is an important part of the strategy. The League lists its number one asset as walkability, and its number seven is transit.
In tiny former French industrial town Sault Ste Marie on the Upper Peninsula, the League is helping build economic synergy between the town and the local state university. In suburban Detroit's Lathrup Village, it is helping repair the damage done by a nine-lane road that bisects the community.
In a recent column, Detroit Free Press Associate Editor Ron Dzwonkowski praised the group's efforts, wondering how the state may have fared if past generations has taken this approach. He notes, for example, that walkable Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan, has weathered the recession better than the rest of the state.
For the four decades that I have been covering public policy debates in Michigan, much of the expelled hot air has been about the best use of taxes and regulations, more or less, to create a climate that will attract investment capital — money that creates jobs. How different Michigan would look today if that debate had been about the best way to attract "human capital" — or to invest in it, so Michigan today had a well-educated 21st-Century work force instead of one that struggles with basic literacy.
Gilmartin agrees. "We don't lose to the Chicagos, and Seattles, Minneapolises and places like that on taxes and regulations," he said. "We just don't." He agrees with Dzwonkowski that creating vibrant urban spaces is far more important in revitalizing Michigan's cities.
From that perspective, there are a few (tempered) rays of hope for Michigan already. Despite the loss of an appalling 25 percent of its population over the last decade, the city of Detroit saw a 59 percent increase in the number of college-educated residents under the age of 35 over the last ten years. News reports from around the country have remarked that despite the city's many problems, it has an offbeat appeal for hundreds of entrepreneurs and artists that are sparking a micro revitalization downtown. NPR even went as far as to wonder if "Detroit is the new Brooklyn."
And local officials have made transportation and livability issues a key part of the plan to revitalize the Motor City. The community has rallied around the revitalizing Midtown neighborhood. And they have made light rail along the Woodward corridor a key piece of their comeback plans.
But that's not to downplay the city's difficulties. Even with the recent educational gains, only 12 percent of Detroit's population holds a bachelor's degree — a full 15 points lower than the national average.
The low point that Michigan and Detroit now find themselves in, has in many ways, however, been the impetus for this campaign for change. And it's an interesting reversal, now, to see cities taking the lead.
"Things used to come down from feds to the states," Gilmartin said. "Our city leaders kind of challenged us to lead."
"The idea of placemaking — it's becoming something we're really able to rally around."
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Radiation Belts
You may have seen a spider web catch bugs in it. Well, the Earth's magnetic field is kind of like a spider's web. It catches particles (protons and electrons) in it. The Earth's magnetic field catches so many protons and electrons that it forms rings around the Earth. Scientists call these rings radiation belts.The radiation belts can be dangerous to humans, animals and electronic equipment. So planes, satellites, the space shuttle and space stations never stay long in the radiation belts...they just quickly pass through them if they have to!
The radiation belts were discovered by James Van Allen in 1958.
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Support Services
We offer several cancer support groups and networks for our patients and their families. We've listed a few here but for more support groups in your community talk to your nurse navigator.
Support groups are an important part of recovery for cancer patients. Knowing that other people have come to terms with a similar diagnosis, meeting fellow cancer survivors, and even going through treatments with a friend can provide the emotional support patients need for recovery. Being around other cancer survivors and fighters can be hugely helpful since they understand what you're going through without explanation. If you are interested in joining a support group or survivors network please talk to your physicians and nurses.
Flying Colors
The Flying Colors Cancer Network was created in 1996 and moved under the leadership of the Baptist Cancer Center and Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation in 2012. Flying Colors' mission is to empower those touched by cancer through a buddy system, networking groups and workshops that allow them to interact with other survivors, learning what they need to know to live life to the fullest.
- Support/networking groups in East and South Memphis, Collierville and Bartlett
- Nutrition Network workshops with oncology dietitian
- The Creative Connection art-for-healing workshops
- "Lighten the Load" fund
- Lending library
- Celebrations for survivors
- Volunteer program in infusion centers
- Meet-a-Survivor buddy system
Hope Circle
HopeCircle provides a community of hope and supportive care services, free of charge, to families living with a catastrophic illness. The Resource Center offers patients a non-threatening environment where they can receive an afghan, wig, cap, or other items, browse the lending library or visit with staff or volunteers.
Volunteer opportunities include: assisting in the Resource Center or treatment room; knitting, crocheting, baking or sewing; assisting at special events. A youth volunteer program (HopeBuilders) empowers young people in grades 1-6 to make a difference in the lives of others through various community projects.
Special Events include: Hope Week, Look Good, Feel Better; an annual Grief Conference; Fundraising events; Cancer Survivors Day.
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After Tech Success, Israel Seeks Life Sciences Growth
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Inspired by its success in high-tech electronics and software, Israel is hoping to pull off the same trick in life sciences.
The Mediterranean country already boasts the world's biggest generic drug maker and a host of smaller research-oriented companies.
Now it aims to build on that foundation, offering incentives to multinationals to invest in a biopharmaceutical incubator fund, set up research centres and collaborate with local firms.
High-tech has been one of Israel's main growth engines and companies such as Intel, IBM and Google have major R&D centers in the country.
Such companies make significant contributions to the tech sector's advancement, says the government's Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS), which hopes to see the creation of similar R&D hubs in the pharmaceutical industry.
The OCS has increased the portion of its budget aimed at life sciences to nearly 30% and launched several programmes to fuel the industry, such as the $220 million OrbiMed venture fund.
It also expects to announce soon the winner of a tender to operate a biopharma incubator that will include more than a dozen projects. Bidding groups must include at least one multinational with revenue of at least $5 billion.
Now the OCS is considering a programme aimed at encouraging foreign companies in life sciences to conduct or support research in Israel, either by operating a local R&D center or through collaboration with Israeli companies.
Any company which does so will find a vibrant scene.
Israel is first in the world for the number of medical device patents per capita and second in biopharmaceuticals. And its life science industry is young but growing fast, featuring firms such as Protalix, Kamada and Gamida Cell.
"That is a core from which something else can happen," said Ruti Alon, a general partner in Pitango, Israel's biggest venture capital firm.
"We don't have a big company in pharma from whom you can learn the processes required in R&D, clinical trials and regulatory, so people are finding their way on their own," Alon said ahead of an annual biomed conference that she co-chairs.
In total, Israel has nearly 1,000 life science firms, of which about 29% are in biopharma, developing proprietary drugs and experimenting with stem cells to treat diseases such as diabetes, Gaucher and leukaemia.
Limited funding
Yet there are obstacles to growing these young companies, as financing for R&D and advanced clinical trials has been limited.
"There is no presence of a big mentor to support this industry," said Ora Dar, head of the life sciences sector in the OCS. "As long as there won't be such a presence there won't be companies. Critical mass is important."
Israel's biggest company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries spends about $500 million a year - a third of its R&D spending - in Israel. But since Teva is mainly focused on generic drugs, its R&D expenses are only 7% of revenue, compared with 18 to 24% at Roche, Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Israel has 23 public biotech companies, a total surpassed by only two countries in Europe. But these firms invested only $113 million in R&D, much less than in countries such as Britain and Sweden, a 2013 survey by Ernst & Young found.
Israel, like Europe, has struggled to compete in biotech with the United States, where most of the sector's successful firms are based.
And, despite the high level of innovation, Israel - with a population of 8 million - is deemed too small for many large firms to open R&D centres, though Roche, Pfizer, Sanofi and Abbott Labs have invested in early-stage firms.
"It's hard to connect with customers," since many are overseas, said Uri Yaron, vice president of business development at Johnson & Johnson's cardiovascular care franchise.
Merck Serono, the biopharma division of Germany's Merck KGaA , is the first multinational in the sector to open an R&D centre in Israel, but it is small, with just 45 people. Still, its Rebif treatment for multiple sclerosis, with annual sales topping €2 billion, was developed in Israel.
The company has launched an incubator to host up to six firms and expects to have three signed by year end.
"I would like more and more R&D to be done in Israel," said Regine Shevach, managing director of Merck Serono's Israel R&D centre. "Without a huge centre, I don't think we can make a difference worldwide."
Medical devices
One area in life sciences that has succeeded in attracting multinational attention is the medical device sector, which includes Given Imaging, maker of the "pill" camera which aids in visualisation of the intestinal tract.
Of the $503 million raised by the broader sector last year, 61% went to medical device companies, according to the Israel Venture Capital Research Center.
There are about 500 medical device firms in Israel that generated more than $1.6 billion in exports in 2011.
Oded Cohn, director of IBM's research lab in Haifa, attributed the success of the medical device sector to the country's strength in software and hardware.
Also, multinationals prefer investing in medical devices because they require less funding than drug firms.
Benny Zeevi, co-chair of the Israel Advanced Technology Industries organisation, said it can take 15 years for an idea to become a drug compared with 8-1/2 years for a medical device.
J&J pioneered investments in Israeli medical devices, buying cardiac imaging specialist Biosense for $400 million in 1997. GE Healthcare then made a series of purchases and other firms followed, such as Medtronic, which bought replacement heart valve maker Ventor Technologies for $325 million.
Further acquisitions and investments in the broader life sciences sector would be an indicator of confidence in its prospects, but still seem a way off.
David Goren, president of AstraZeneca in Israel, which until now has focused on conducting clinical trials, said he expects his company to make additional spending in Israel.
"But I think those investments will take a while, until you see more companies here," he said. "A mindset shift needs to happen for big pharma, a herd mentality."


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The insightful and sometimes humorous tasting notes written by Gary Parker provide a keen, descriptive insight to what you may be tasting and experiencing as you enjoy the wines. Your confidence in wine tasting will build effortlessly as your wine vocabulary and awareness will grow.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Lessons Learned
1. Get express written permission about what you can (if anything) and cannot blog about.
2. Not everyone is your friend.
3. Not everyone will like you...just because.
4. Some people will not hesitate to throw you under the bus.
5. Big companies might not be the place for me.
6. Big companies are full of many motivated and talented people.
I learned a great deal in the year and a half. My family and I moved from Gainesville to Tampa and it was the best decision we've made so far.
I was exposed to data warehousing which was a challenge to say the least. To spend a week trying to figure out the best way to move data was an interesting exercise.
I was exposed to big company politics which was fun.
Overall my experience there was positive. I learned a great deal both personally and professionally. I met and hope to retain many good friends and I will miss all of them dearly.
11 comments:
- SydOracle said...
You've got my sympathies.
Good luck with find a new role - May 28, 2008 at 7:40 PM
- Jake said...
Wow, you appear to be taking this well. I applaud your level-headedness in what could have been a flame post.
Maybe you can take a page from Mark Jen's book. He seems to have rebounded nicely.
Best wishes. I hope you'll keep blogging and still be aggregated by Eddie. - May 28, 2008 at 9:19 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Thanks Gary.
Don't think I didn't consider it! ;) But I'd like to maintain some amount of class (do I even have any?).
I'll definitely keep blogging, I'll just make sure I'm more careful next time.
chet - May 28, 2008 at 9:42 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Excellent article. Thanks for sharing.
I certainly don't blame them. I don't necessarily agree, but I do not blame them. It's the company's job, not mine. They can do with it as they see fit.
Perhaps I've been reading 37signals for too long? I enjoy the openness of their site...I guess I've tried to model my site after theirs, showing both success and failures. - May 28, 2008 at 9:51 PM
- Dan Norris said...
I noticed that you edited the original post to remove the company name--smart move :).
Good luck in your next venture--sounds like you've learned a lot, the hard way this time. Thanks for informing the rest of us.
I think it's strange that some places fire employees over what they blog or that they have a blog. I'm much more likely to hire a candidate if they do have an active blog. Different strokes, I guess. - May 29, 2008 at 12:36 AM
- oraclenerd said...
Definitely the hard way. I seem to be prone to that type of thing, I guess I'm a bit naive (ignorant?) in many ways.
My wife is now editing for me. I have to run everything by her. I thought it was safe, but she told me to get rid of it. I will happily oblige.
Different strokes indeed. I would agree with you...but I guess it is still sort of new, the whole "instant communication" thing. I can understand the companies view, but I think you should embrace it. It doesn't mean posting confidential information or trade secrets of course... - May 29, 2008 at 12:48 AM
- DomBrooks said...
I hope you find a new challenge quickly and that your blog will help with that.
- May 29, 2008 at 2:39 AM
- Carl Backstrom said...
Good luck on any new ventures, I'm sure you'll find a job that is much more conducive to how you want to work and share, and be appreciated for it.
- May 29, 2008 at 1:28 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Thanks Carl!
- May 29, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Although you have removed the company name from the post, it is still in the URL, and the link from today's blog post.
- August 25, 2009 at 5:26 AM
- oraclenerd said...
Yup. When I originally created it I had WellCare in the name and only after posting it did I decide to remove it. Blogger creates the URL using the title of the post. Nothing I'm ashamed of at this point.
chet - August 25, 2009 at 12:26 PM


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The tagline of this website is "You are phenomenal. Live accordingly."
But am I just trying to win friends? Make you feel good? Trademark™ a nifty slogan?
To prove you're phenomenal, let's start by looking at your brain.
It's fast. Astoundingly fast. And I'll bet you're not giving it the credit it deserves.
How fast is your brain working? To answer that question, we need to look at just three variables*:
Neurons are nerve cells that process and transmit electrochemical signals. Like a little lightning bolt transmitter/receiver/processor. The human brain has about 100 billion of them.
Each neurons fires (on average) about 200 times per second. And each neuron connects to about 1,000 other neurons. So... every time each neuron fires a signal, 1,000 other neurons get that information.
Let's multiply:
100 billion neurons
200 firings per second
1,000 connections each
20,000,000,000,000,000 bits of info transmitted per second
Think about that:
20 million billion bits of information move around your brain every second.
It takes a lot of individual bits/neurons — could be millions... could be billions — to form a picture. (The picture of the brain above is 12kb [9,399 bytes], or 75,192 individual bits of information.)
How many bits does it take to shape a whole thought? Analyze a complex situation? Probably billions.
We still haven't scratched the surface of how many neurons you've got.
Plus, consider that your brain is doing all those calculations at the same time... every moment of every day...
processing sounds
... and 99+% of the work it's doing... you never even notice.
Your brain is fast.
Astoundingly fast.
And the best part of all... is that we're each in full control of where we direct its focus.
What are you focusing your brain on?
Funny how sometimes we forget just how phenomenal we really are.
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21 January 2010 - 8:28 am
This information is astounding. There truly seems to be
limitless possibilities to yet discover.
20 November 2009 - 4:18 pm
A more interesting question, I think, is how much of this computational resource would we identify as being "us", if we knew exactly what it did?
And I wonder, given the inefficiencies inherent in evolution, if we built an AI that could completely understand – and optimize – a human brain .. how much would it be able to reduce that brain?
A more depressing view of the human brain would be as an organ of massive computational power – and very much of it is going to waste because evolution possesses no _insight_. If we could ever truly understand, and improve our own brains .. I think that would be a more plausible Singularity than the technological one.


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By: William Maisel, M.D., M.P.H.
We take so much for granted.
That was my thought when I first heard about the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, a new device approved by the FDA today.
This small electronic device, implanted in the eye, may improve the visual function of patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa, or RP.
What is RP? It's a rare genetic eye disease that affects approximately 100, 000 people in the U.S. RP gradually damages the light-sensitive cells that line the retina (a membrane within the eye). In time, a person's limited ability to tell light from dark can erode. Far too often, the outcome is total blindness.
After carefully reviewing data from a clinical study of 30 patients with RP, FDA is giving the go-ahead to Second Sight Medical Products Inc. to sell the Argus II, the first device of its kind. It has three components: a small electronic device surgically implanted in the eye, a tiny video camera mounted on a pair of glasses and a control unit that is carried by the patient.
The camera captures images. The images become an electric signal. The brain perceives this signal as light.
I could say a lot about how this device works and what it can do for those with RP, but instead, I'll let patients from the study speak for themselves. Here are excerpts from their comments at the public forum of FDA's advisory meeting:
"The biggest thing to me was being able to see the crosswalk lines on the street so I can safely cross streets in Manhattan."
"The most exciting day to me was October 27th, in 2009. It was the first time I was able to see letters on the monitor screen (during a test of visual perception). I had not seen letters since 1994, so that was huge."
"I have a son who is 17 years old and … I don't mind telling you how much — I mean, how happy that made me, not only to see the silhouette of my son, but to hear that voice coming and saying, 'Yeah, it's me, Dad. I'm here and I love you.' "
For many of the approximately 1,300 individuals who will develop the disease this year, this technology may change their lives. And FDA, on the cutting edge of regulatory science, played an important role in that.
It's the difference between night and day.
William H. Maisel, M.D., M.P.H., is Deputy Director for Science and Chief Scientist at FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health


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Welcome, February! The month of love. And one thing we all love is mini albums.
Mini albums are perfect for themed projects. For collecting random photos or random memories. Mini albums can be quick: easily finished in an evening. Mini albums can be made in advance. Mini albums can double as photo books. Mini albums let you express your creativity as it is a short term commitment to a new style. Mini albums can be finished or can continue to grow with your experiences. Mini albums can follow a formula or be completely random. And this is in part what makes them so much fun!
This month, we challenge you to take an evening and put one together. For those of you who make many, we hope the gallery will inspire a new topic or a new method. And for those of you who have never made a mini album before, beware! They are not only fun but addicting! All in a good way, of course.
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White Oval Trains
Like sailboats in the ocean, the white ovals seem to drift eastward faster than the underlying current which carries other cloud formations in the South Temperate Zone (STZ). Since their birth , the ovals have changed both their appearance , and the speed at which they drift to the east.Oval FA drifted the fastest, and by 1987 was on the other side of Jupiter from where they were born. Oval BC is next eastward-most oval. Oval BC is also the biggest of the classic ovals. Oval BC and oval DE drift at different speeds, thus one might expect that they might run into each other. It seems however that for 60 years, BC and DE have had close encounters, coming to within 18 degrees of each other, but repel each other when they get too close. One will speed up, or the other will slow down so that they always stayed apart.
Other white ovals nearby are situated slightly to the south of these three. Since BC is the largest of the ovals it seems to hog the space within the STZ, and not allow the other white ovals, WO1, WO2, and DE to get by. The picture shows BC at the eastward-most end, with a train of white ovals trailing along behind.
In 1998, BC and DE had their final close encounter and merged to form a new oval called BE.


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TNN | Jun 29, 2013,
Rathod had gone to inquire about the procedures for the card on June 14 this month and was asked to come on June 15 by a youth working for the registration for the cards at the ward office. Rathod said he was asked to pay Rs 100 each for his and his wife Tara's registration. He paid the amount and did not have to wait like other citizens and got the registrations done.
Rathod contacted the person again for the registration of his son and struck a deal. But when he went to the office of ward four for the registration on Friday, he took along the media and exposed the racket. Rathod said the money was to be given to a person operating at a photocopying centre near the ward office. Rathod later submitted a formal complaint regarding the issue to VMC headquarters.
"People come early in the morning before daybreak to get themselves registered. Then they have to come again at the time given to them to get themselves registered and give their fingerprints as well as retina scans. By paying money you can bypass the entire process," Rathod said. VMC deputy municipal commissioner R K Sugoor said the man accused for taking bribes has been removed from duties. He added that the firm handling the project had also been issued a notice.
Sources in VMC added that the firm was appointed by the government after an elaborate procedure.
They added that the civic body's job was to facilitate the operations.
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By Mark Richardson --
Last week the pan-European Intellectual Property Summit (IP Summit) was held in Brussels and the first morning of the summit saw a number of discussions regarding the unitary patent and unified patent court. A common theme that seemed to crop up from anyone representing the official EU position was that the proposed unitary patent protection (UPP) package isn't perfect but it'll do! Hmm.
The opening keynote introduction was from Kerstin Jorna from the European Commission (Director, Intellectual Property – Internal Market & Services DG) who likened the UPP package to a cake that doesn't look like the picture in the recipe book when you remove it from the oven. According to Ms Jorna, in such circumstances we should ask ourselves whether the cake is fit to be served to our family! Apparently the UPP cake is fit to be eaten. Please insert your own joke here about too many cooks in the kitchen . . . .
One other point to come out of the keynote session was that the European Commission intends to do everything in its power to grant the first unitary patent in Spring 2014. Selection of the unitary patent would be made at the validation stage which means that the first unitary patent is probably already in the system somewhere.
The main session on the unitary patent and court threw up two main issues: forum shopping in the unified patent court and the cost of maintenance fees for the unitary patent.
The maintenance fee issue was raised by the representative from Proctor & Gamble Europe. P&G currently have a validation programme of between four and six contracting states. They generally welcome the unitary patent proposals as it provides the option of enforcing their IP over a wider geographic area. However, they raised the concern that the maintenance fee levels are currently unknown and these could have a big impact on whether the system is seen as financially viable. They made the point that once a unitary patent is chosen there is no going back if the maintenance fee burden becomes too high. Currently of course they have the option of dropping some of the validated states if they desire to prune country coverage.
A Dutch attorney later suggested that the proposed maintenance fee amounts being discussed would add approximately 50% to P&G's post-grant costs. No basis was given for these figures.
Forum shopping was also raised as a concern by a number of people in the audience with one audience member suggesting that there might be a danger of some local divisions promoting a pro-patentee stance to get more cases coming their way. If such local divisions were also associated with referring validity back to the Central Division, then this would make them potentially very attractive to patent rights holders looking to get a geographically significant injunction.
It was at this point that a representative from (I believe) the EPO suggested in the space of two minutes that (i) forum shopping from the point of view of efficiency and costs was healthy; (ii) forum shopping (in the manner suggested by the concerned audience members) would not take place, and; (iii) even if forum shopping developed, the Appeal Court would overturn matters so that the system would be self correcting!
This point of view was quite worrying. Even if the Appeal Court did eventually overturn infringement decisions from the local division, it doesn't change the fact that until the patent is either shown to be invalid or the decision is overturned, a valid injunction is in place. The other issue here is one of cost. If the alleged infringer is forced to appeal the decision then this will add to their costs.
A point was made later in the session that under the system being developed the Appeal Court would be able to intervene and suspend the effect of an injunction if they felt it was wrong or the local division was issuing "crazy" decisions. However, whether the Appeal Court would want to get involved that often is unknown.
A question was asked during the session on "Rules of Procedure for the Unified Patent Court" as to when we might expect to see the draft rules (apparently we are up to the 12th draft). The answer, eventually, came that there would be a public consultation at some point next year (February onwards).
Mr. Richardson is a Director at Keltie in London, UK.
This article was reprinted with permission from the IPCopy blog.


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Keeping a detailed forex trading journal still not enough for you?
If you're looking to take your journaling a notch higher, you might want to consider getting a tape recorder to keep track of how you talk to yourself while trading.
Sounds pretty crazy, huh?
You might not be aware of it all the time but forex traders like you and I have this tendency to talk to ourselves during the actual trading process.
We often have dialogues with ourselves when hunting for trade setups, deciding whether to take a trade or not, cursing the markets when price doesn't go our way, or congratulating ourselves when profit targets are hit.
These dialogues are actually part of what psychologists call priming, which is defined as an implicit memory effect in which exposure to a certain stimulus impacts response to that same stimulus later on.
Simply put, our reactions to events are typically shaped by how we reacted to those events in the past.
This is why commercials usually try to associate products with good feelings.
In a way, self-dialogue while forex trading acts like an advertisement to ourselves as it associates thoughts and emotions to specific events, making us prone to have the same kind of reaction once the event repeats itself later on.
For forex traders, there are three general types of self-talk that we usually engage in, each of which has both positive and negative implications to it.
1. Environment-based vs. emotion-based talk
Those who describe the market environment out loud (e.g. price action, shifts in market sentiment, etc.) are more likely to have more success in forex trading that those who talk about their emotions, regardless of whether they're positive or negative.
There's a scientific explanation for this. You see, the frontal region of our brain is where the process of decision-making occurs. However, when we are emotionally-stressed, our heart rates increase and the frontal region becomes more difficult to access.
Talking out loud about how you feel could mean that your emotions are heightened and your brain finds it harder to make rational calls necessary for forex trading.
2. Active vs. passive talk
It may seem silly, but the trader who refers to himself using "I" has a bigger probability of succeeding than the one who uses "me" in his self-talk.
The rationale is that "me" signifies that a person is only a recipient of action, vulnerable to the effect of events.
On the other hand, "I" implies the active participation of the person. You say, "I eat," "I do," "I will take profit," and "I trade" if you intend to exercise control in carrying out these tasks.
Sure, no one can ever control the markets. However, success comes to those who take control of what they can and strive to be useful in whatever situation they're in.
3. Trading-related vs. dillydally talk
It shouldn't come off as a surprise that those traders who can sustain their focus on the markets are more successful than those who cannot.
Even when they're not trading, successful forex traders continue to exude their tenacity by reading up on the markets or discussing trading strategies with other traders. It's as though they are setting themselves up for competition, using their spare time to find an edge over the market.
Meanwhile, those who don't have the concentration are typically seen just surfing the web or chatting with their pals. These traders only prime themselves for avoidance from the market.
If you've been engaging in negative self-talk than more productive ones, don't worry. Priming happens in our subconscious. So, in order to fix it, we just have to make a conscious effort to steer clear of it.
Here's where a recorder will come handy. Listen to the things you say when you trade. If you don't have one, you can start noting down what you say in your forex trading journal.
Once you notice that you tend to shout out your glee over a winning trade, or maybe talk too often about HBO hit Succession during trading hours, it will be easier to correct yourself.
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Zendesk will automatically display 6 articles under each section in your Help Center. For some six is too many and would like to show less especailly if they have alot of sections under each category. To make things a little neater we can add some code to only show 3 articles at a time.
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The CSS Code does not seem to work for me on the Copenhagen Theme but I instead accessed the category_page.hbs template and added the following code to the bottom of the page:
.article-list li:nth-child(n+4) {
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This will hide all but the first 3 articles in the article list of the category page. I chose to put this directly on the category page because if I put the main CSS page, it would also hide articles on the section_page.hbs which I do not want to happen.
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{{t 'show_all_articles' count=article_count}}
I found that the more_articles is a true or false value. It will become true if there are more than 6 articles. This is why you will not see the link with sections that have less than 7 articles.
If you don't mind having the link show up for all sections regardless of amount of articles, remove the bolded {{#if more_articles}} and {{/if}} from above. Results should look like this:
If you do not want the links to show up for anything less than 4, we need to define that we want these to show up for sections that have 4, 5 and 6 articles. Add the following bolded code after the{{/if}} but before the {{else}} as shown in the code above on the category_page.hbs template . The code will end up looking like this:
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{{t 'show_all_articles' count=article_count}}
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{{t 'show_all_articles' count=article_count}}
{{#is article_count 5}}

{{t 'show_all_articles' count=article_count}}
{{#is article_count 6}}

{{t 'show_all_articles' count=article_count}}
This makes my category page look like this:
A few different solutions here but I hope this helps!
Good luck!
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This is a great tip, Wes! This really cleaned up one of my topic pages.
Also thanks to Rose from Zendesk!
@James - Glad to hear and I agree with you that it does make everything look cleaner. That's why I asked for it and implemented it on our Help Center.
Thank you!
@Dani - Your welcome glad I could help!
Hi Wes,
Is there any way to edit the JS to show all articles in a section? Thanks!
@Steve - I don't believe there is a way to show all articles in a sections as the ZenDesk code will limit it.
Used this script to show 5 articles or less, ran into an issue. The "See all 6 articles" font size for categories that have 6 articles is larger than categories that have 7 or more articles. One appears underlined and one does not. Has anyone else seen this?
@Mariah - I'll take a look at this but is there a way I can see your page so that I can inspect the different elements to see what's going on. If I can't no big deal as I can give you some suggestions but it sure would help.
@wes Of course you can! We just pushed the site live so here is the link --> http://support.runkeeper.com/hc/en-us/categories/200097368-Known-Issues
@Mariah - Great and thanks for the link as it made it alot easier to troubleshoot. Go to you CSS file and on line 765 make it match what I have below. As you can see I have commented out 3 of the lines. Give that a try and let me know if that fixes you up.
.see-all-articles {
display: inline-block;
/* font-size: 10px; */
/* margin-top: 10px; */
/* text-decoration: underline; */
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@Wes, that makes the two "See all.." look the same but I prefer the look of the underline, is it possible to make the bigger "see all 6 articles" match the smaller?
@Mariah - Got ya sorry I was doing it in reverse as I thought you wanted the font size to match the text above. Let me play around with it as we may have to use JQuery if we go that path. Not that it matters but I liked the larger text as it made it easier to read. Be back soon.
@Mariah - Give this a try as I could not test it on my end.
Change the following line in JS:
$("" + linkText + "").insertAfter($(categories[j]));
Change To:
$("" + linkText + "").insertAfter($(categories[j]));
@Wes Works like a charm! Thanks so much!
@Mariah - glad to hear and if you need any additional help just let me know.
@Wes - We'd like to display a list enumerating all of categories and all of their respective articles -- no matter how many there are; but we do *not* want the individual articles to be expandable (so the {{category_tree_with_articles}} component doesn't work for us). Suggestions? Thanks in advance.
@Derek - I didn't think there was a way to do this however after much playing around, I may have found a solution. You will need to test this to make sure it doesn't mess anything else up but give this a try.
Use {{category_tree_with_articles}} in your HTML
Add the following to your JS tab after the "$(document).ready(function() {" line
//Trick zendesk into showing all articles
$('ul.article-list li a').removeAttr('data-asynchtml-ressource');Let me know how your testing goes.
@Derek - By the way this should also work on the Category Page with the {{section_tree_with_article}} placeholder.
Thank you for sharing this sample code. It really cleans up the layout of articles. However, I'd love to remove the "See all # articles". Or at the very least, know how to change the wording from "See all # articles" to "Click to see more..." Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this sample code. It really cleans up the layout of articles. However, I'd love to remove the "See all # articles". Or at the very least, know how to change the wording from "See all # articles" to "Click to see more..." Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!
Hi Janet - Glad you find the code above useful for your Help Center. If you want to change the wording of the link at the bottom of the article listing then please add the below JS code below the $document ready function:
Link below is to my Gist - also feel free to look at all of my code that I've written for Zendesk.
@Wes, you are my hero! My syntax was not even close. Thank you for sharing.
@Janet - Glad I could help. If you need anything else just let me know.
Hi Wes,
The sample code has been great but I'm running into an issue with it for any section that has more than 6 articles in it. More specifically, everything renders fine for sections that have 4-6 articles in it but if there are 7 or more articles, "More..." and "See all # articles" underline separately as if they are for separate links. Both links function properly but it's driving me nuts that any section with 7 or more articles looks like "More..." and "See all # articles" are separate links.
Have you seen this before? Do you know how I can fix this?
@David - I believe I know what you are referring to so as soon as I get some time I'll take a look and do some testing.
Thanks! @Wes!
I really appreciate it.
@David - I'm running into the same problem on my side. I'll be interested to know if you find a solution.
@David or @Paul - Any chance one of you could send me a link to your Help Center so that I can take a look. If not I will have to re-create the code on my end which will take me even longer. Also what theme are yall using.
Thanks @Wes
Here is my sandbox: https://fuzemeeting1403719153.zendesk.com/hc/en-us - note
See sections under category "Getting Started" - I believe I'm using the "Swift Elk" theme.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (August 2, 2012) - The AMA Pro Harley-Davidson Insurance Grand National Championship presented by Motorcycle-Superstore.com and Lucas Oil makes its one trip to the Pacific Northwest on the first Saturday of August, before heading back to the Midwest for the second half of the 2012 schedule.
Mount Saint Helens Motorcycle Club will be hosting Round 8 of the 16 race season on their fabled TT track in scenic Castle Rock, Washington.
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Hometown hero, Sammy Halbert (Fredericktown Yamaha) sits third in points thirty three points down to Mees. Halbert recorded his first Grand National victory on the tight, technical TT track in 2007 and backed that up when the series returned in 2011 with another win. No doubt Halbert hopes to make up significant ground.
Jared Mees has a third, fifth and second on his Castle Rock resume while defending Grand National Champion, Jake Johnson won the 2006 race, the only other Castle Rock National this century. Johnson has since posted sixth and seventh place finishes.
The Northwest flat track fans always look forward to the castle Rock TT as it allows many of their local heroes the chance to come home from the Grand National series and perform in front of friends and family.
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MAUNSELL, EDWARD HERBERT, NWMP officer and rancher; b. 14 Oct. 1855 in Ballywilliam, County Limerick (Republic of Ireland), son of Frederick Maunsell and Louise Herbert; m. 10 Aug. 1886 Jeanette Ryan of Tipperary (Republic of Ireland), and they had two daughters and one son; d. 11 Nov. 1923 in Lethbridge, Alta.
Edward Maunsell was educated in Ireland and came to Canada in 1874, where he immediately joined the North-West Mounted Police. Assigned to D Division, he took part in the Long March from Dufferin, Man., to the Sweet Grass Hills (Alta/Mont.). He was with the section of the force under Commissioner George Arthur French that returned to Manitoba, but in 1876 he was transferred to Fort Macleod (Alta). After completing his three-year term in 1877 he went back to Ireland. His familiarity with cattle raising had enabled him to recognize the potential for ranching in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. He returned to North America, and when his elder brother George Wyndham obtained his discharge from the NWMP in 1878, they undertook to become ranchers.
At that time, since no cattle were available in what is now southern Alberta, the brothers contracted with a Montana firm to deliver 103 head to them in the summer of 1879. Meanwhile, they earned a living near Fort Macleod by growing oats, cutting rails, and filling hay contracts for the mounted police. After receiving the cattle, the Maunsells learned that the land would not be opened to settlement for at least a year, and they worried that starving Indians would slaughter their herds [see Isapo-muxika*]. In the autumn round-up, when they discovered that nearly half their animals had strayed or been killed, with other cattle owners they sent their remaining stock to Montana. By the time the cattle were brought back in 1881, the herd had been further reduced through theft and mismanagement.
A third brother, Henry Frederick, joined Edward and George in 1881, and Maunsell Brothers took homesteads and a lease of 6,500 acres immediately west of Fort Macleod. Initially they prospered, but the terrible winter of 1886–87 ravaged their herd. As a result, George left the partnership to establish his own ranch, while Edward and Harry, as his younger brother was known, remained at the original site. In their partnership, Edward was in charge of the Ivy Ranch (named for his IV brand) and Harry ran the adjacent farm.
In Maunsell's opinion, the government's leasing policy for grazing land greatly favoured the huge ranch companies [see Matthew Henry Cochrane*; Frederick Smith Stimson*] and the only way to compete was to expand. Over the years, he became one of the leading cattlemen of the southern District of Alberta. In 1900 he leased the entire Peigan Indian Reserve and in 1901 he added 700 cattle to his herd when he bought out a neighbouring rancher. To increase further the size of his holdings, he entered into partnership with John Cowdry, a private banker in Fort Macleod. They purchased a 200,000-acre grazing lease west of Medicine Hat at Grassy Lake for $100,000 and when the historic Cochrane Ranche was sold to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1905, Maunsell bought its entire herd for $240,000. At its peak, about 1910, the Maunsell ranch had some 15,000 cattle and shipped entire trainloads to the Chicago market.
Changes in its fortunes occurred in the 1910s. The federal government cancelled the Grassy Lake lease without notice, and although the subsequent lawsuit would be settled in favour of Maunsell, thousands of cattle had had to be sold at a tremendous loss. Maunsell suffered a personal blow in 1917 when his son, Frederick William Edward, was killed in France at Vimy Ridge and another in 1919 when his brother George died. The ranching operation experienced further reverses with the destruction of hundreds of stock in the harsh winter of 1919–20 and termination of the lease on the Peigan reserve. The Ivy Ranch was reduced to its freehold land.
In addition to ranching, Edward Maunsell was active in the community. An unsuccessful Liberal candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1910, he served as president of the Macleod Old Timers Association and took an interest in local history and place names. On 13 Oct. 1923, less than a month before his death, the Calgary Daily Herald published a long account of his adventures in the times before the arrival of the large ranch companies. His anecdotes, with their stories of danger and hardship, their humour, and their appreciation of character, bring to life the brief days of the frontier in southern Alberta.
"Epic of the west unfolded by pioneer of '70s," Calgary Daily Herald, 13 Oct. 1923. Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alta), 6 Jan., 13 Nov. 1923. Alta Geneal. Soc., "Alta cemetery records surname index.". John Blue, Alberta, past and present, historical and biographical (3v., Chicago, 1924), 2: 102–4. Fort Macleod – our colourful past: a history of the town of Fort Macleod, from 1874 to 1924 (Fort Macleod, Alta, 1977), 341–42. A. O. MacRae, History of the province of Alberta (2v., [Calgary], 1912), 2: 692. "The west of Edward Maunsell," ed. H. A. Dempsey, Alberta Hist. (Calgary), 34 (1986), no.4: 1–17; 35 (1987), no.1: 13–26.
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Russell Wilson doesn't have to worry about Terrelle Pryor running away with his job and he's certainly not concerned about the newly acquired signal-caller disrupting the Seattle Seahawks quarterback's room.
Wilson called Pryor a "great competitor" who he looks forward to working with in 2014.
"I think the thing about our quarterback room is that we want to be the hardest-working guys in the room, and the hardest-working guys in the building," Wilson told SiriusXM NFL Radio on Wednesday. "That's the way we look at it. I know that Terrelle will bring that to the table. We're looking forward to that.
"I'm looking forward to just being around him and getting out there. I know that our locker room definitely became more athletic with him. He can do a lot of great things."
Pryor will start out as a quarterback and compete for the No. 3 job behind Wilson and Tarvaris Jackson -- though it wouldn't be a shock if at some point Pete Carroll and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell conjured a non-QB package for Pryor.
While Pryor brings an athletic dynamic to the Seahawks' roster, Wilson said he doesn't need teammates to push him to become better.
"Well, what motivates me, at the end of the day, it's not anyone else," Wilson said. "I'm a self-motivator. It has to be within myself to be the best that I can be. I think to be a great leader or a great player, you have to be a self-motivator.
"You look at other athletes, that's why I go watch other sports, I love seeing great players play. You look at guys like LeBron James -- he's a self-motivated individual."
In the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast," the guys talk Geno Smith's future in New York and pick the winners and losers of free agency.


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Editor's Note: Rand Paul, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Kentucky. He will be a guest tonight on Erin Burnett Out Front at 7 p.m. ET.
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Sen. Rand Paul: I support Mitt Romney but question some of his foreign policy speech
He says Romney seeks more intervention in Mideast, where U.S. wars have fared poorly
Paul says arming the rebels in Syria risks empowering some people with anti-U.S. agendas
He says U.S. defense budget is too high, growing at unsustainable rate
This week, I will campaign for Gov. Mitt Romney. I believe this election will and should be about moving America back from the edge of the abyss on which we stand, where our debt and spending threaten to overwhelm and drown us. Romney's belief in free markets, limited government and trade make him the clear choice to lead our country come January.
I do not, however, support a call for intervention in Syria. And, if such intervention were being contemplated, it is absolutely necessary that Congress give any such authority to the president. No president, Republican or Democrat, has the unilateral power to take our nation to war without the authority of the legislature.
At times, I have been encouraged by Romney's foreign policy. I agree with his call to end the war in Afghanistan sooner rather than later and with his skepticism of, and call for reform in, foreign aid, but I am a bit dismayed by his foreign policy speech Monday, titled "Mantle of Leadership."
Romney chose to criticize President Obama for seeking to cut a bloated Defense Department and for not being bellicose enough in the Middle East, two assertions with which I cannot agree.
Defense and war spending has grown 137% since 2001. That kind of growth is not sustainable.
Opinion: Romney's sorta-kinda call to arms
Adm. Michael Mullen stated earlier this year that the biggest threat to our national security is our debt.
If debt is our gravest threat, adding to the debt by expanding military spending further threatens our national security.
While I would always stand up for America and preserve our ability to defend ourselves, a less aggressive foreign policy along with an audit of the Pentagon could save tens of billions of dollars each year without sacrificing our defense. To dismiss either idea is to miss the very compromise that will enable us to balance our budget. That compromise would be for conservatives to admit that not every dollar spent on the military is sacred or well-spent and for liberals to admit that not every dollar spent on domestic entitlements and welfare is necessary.
In North Africa and the Middle East, our problem has not been a lack of intervention. In the past 10 years we have fought two full wars there, and bombed or sent troops into several others.
This past year, President Obama illegally began a war with Libya, taking sides with the rebels to unseat an admittedly bad man in Moammar Gadhafi. There were several problems with this policy: First, the president did not seek or get the necessary constitutional authority from Congress for this military action. If our Constitution is to mean anything it must be applied even in times of war, when those seeking to exercise power do not find it expedient.
Just as importantly, the Libyan rebels were assisted with virtually no one in the administration or in Congress demanding to know who these people were that we were arming and propping up. No one seemed to understand that in toppling Libya's dictatorship, we were leaving in its wake an unformed, unorganized government without a centralized structure, one that would have a difficult time keeping order among the more than 100 tribes that make up Libya.
This "act first, think later" foreign policy has real consequences. We've seen our embassies and consulates stormed in more than one country. Our diplomats and security team were killed. Our flag is being burned, our country mocked.
The proper response to this would be to step back and think of whether we really need to be involved in these countries in the way we have been. Instead, both parties rush headlong into more places they don't understand, exemplified Monday by Romney urging action to arm Syrian rebels and topple President Bashar al-Assad.
But just who are these rebels? What will they do when in power? Is this really in our vital national interest?
Opinion: Romney's foreign policy twilight zone
We've been 10 years in Afghanistan and we can't identify friend from foe. Do you think we can, with certainty, identify friend and foe in Syria?
Before taking our country closer to war, shouldn't we at least ask the viewpoint of the significant Christian population in Syria? News reports indicate they are wary of the rebels and are either sitting the fight out or siding with al-Assad. Al-Assad is by no means a saint but Christians flocked to Syria from a war-torn Iraq because they feared al-Assad less than the Islamic government we brought into being.
Before getting deeply involved, should someone ask: Are these rebels going to be implementing the death penalty for criticism of Islam?
There is ample evidence the rebels are being funded and armed by the most extreme Islamist elements and governments in the region. Is that where we want our funds and weapons to end up? We need to stop and think before we act.
I am not an isolationist or a pacifist. I heartily reject both labels. I believe in engagement in the world, with trade, commerce, diplomacy and a foreign policy that projects the greatness of America and her people. I would not hesitate to vote to send American troops to war to protect our country and our vital national security interests.
Opinion: Obama, Romney – Ignore Afghanistan war at your own peril
But we are in too many places, too often, and we don't seem to even know the reason – or where we will end up when we're done. This foreign policy has created more enemies than it has vanquished. It has siphoned trillions of America's dollars. It has cost tens of thousands of casualties in the loss of the lives and limbs of our soldiers.
We owe it to ourselves, our soldiers and our children to take a more careful look at our foreign policy, to not rush into war, and to not attempt to score political points with wrongheaded policy ideas.
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WikiLeaks cables reveal US-Algeria partnership for battling Al Qaeda
Views on what Wikileaks does run the gamut from admiration to condemnation, but I share the view (articulated here) that the most important question concerning Wikileaks is not whether its staff has acted morally, but rather what impact regular leaks will have on journalism and government, now that it seems likely that regular leaks will become a fixture of the future media landscape. Put differently, some readers might object to Wikileaks' release of US embassy cables related to, for example, US counterterrorism policy in the Sahel. But now that those materials are circulating, I feel that I should analyze them in order to give readers a sense of how the conversation about the US and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) might evolve. Briefly, leaked cables relating to the Sahel suggest a strong US-Algerian partnership and a weaker role for Mali.
CNN has its own analysis, which stresses themes like increasing US concern over AQIM (including its potential involvement in regional drug trafficking), US approval of regional coordination, but continued mistrust among Sahelian governments. Here are some excerpts:
[The fight against AQIM] is a struggle that the United States is taking ever more seriously, according to U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks…The United States has stepped up its military cooperation with governments in the region.
In the cables, officials from Algeria and Mali talk of a growing threat from al Qaeda in the region. One cable from the U.S. ambassador in Mali discusses the visit by the commander of U.S. Africa Command, Gen. William E. Ward, last November. President Amadou Toumani Toure told him that while al Qaeda "had difficulty getting their message across to a generally reluctant population, they have had some success in enlisting disaffected youth to their ranks."
According to the cable, Toure complained: "Military cooperation with Algeria is the problem. … It is not just a matter of destroying a couple of (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) bases, we have to be able to hold the territory. The longer the situation drags on, the stronger the Salafists [al Qaeda] will get."
The Algerians tended to blame Mali. "The nexus of arms, drug and contraband smuggling in northern Mali created an enabling environment," according to senior Algerian defense official Abdelmalik Guenaizia, who added that "terrorists will use any means available to finance their activities, including corruption and hostage-taking."
[...]U.S. efforts to improve coordination in the Sahel region against terrorism do appear to be bearing fruit. Another diplomatic cable from 2009 welcomes the establishment of a regional command for counterterrorism operations.
As contacts on Twitter pointed out, the leaked cables are just one more piece in a jumbled puzzle. Tommy Miles wrote, "This would be the proper moment to stress these cables are what US & Alg gov SAY not necessarily what's happening." Andrew Lebovich added, "also, what Alg and Mal officials SAY about each others' levels of cooperation against AQIM." Arguably the cables reveal more about attitudes than actions.
The Guardian has posted the text of cables related to counterterrorism in the Sahel, and readers may find them of interest. In chronological order:
- One from December 2007 (following the Dec. 11 Algiers bombings) stresses the adaptability of AQIM, the influence of Iraqi insurgencies on the group, the inability of Algerian security forces to completely stop terrorism, and the author's expectation that the security situation would either "stay roughly as it is now or deteriorate."
- One from December 2009 discusses a US request to the Algerian government to conduct surveillance flights over Algeria, Mauritania, and Mali.
- One from January 2010 reports Algerian officials' outrage over their country's placement on an enhanced screening list at the US Transportation Security Administration, outrage specifically framed with reference to US-Algerian cooperation on couterterrorism. Algeria's "Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci January 11 summoned the Ambassador and forcefully objected…He termed the decision intolerable, inappropriate, and inopportune. It reflected neither the reality of Algeria's security situation, its counterterrorism efforts nor our close bilateral cooperation."
The Guardian has analyzed what these documents say about the evolution of US-Algerian relations from 2007 to the present, with Algeria's role in American eyes going from "security joke to US ally." Algeria has come to be the most important US partner in the regional counterterrorism effort.
The content of cables relating to Algeria and the Sahel will not necessarily surprise readers, but the cables do bring out the relationships in the region, especially the closeness of US-Algerian cooperation and the tensions between Algeria and Mali. Given existing tensions between Mauritania and Mali, that could mean that Mali is somewhat marginalized by its neighbors and even by the US. Now that a great deal of AQIM's high-profile kidnappings and clashes with authorities take place in Mali, disagreements between Algeria and Mali could prove problematic for tightening regional cooperation and advancing the counterterrorism effort.
– Alex Thurston is a PhD student studying Islam in Africa at Northwestern University who blogs at Sahel Blog. You can also follow him on Twitter.


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Professor Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL, is leading a movement to revolutionize our access to robots. With help from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Expeditions in Computing Program, Rus and her team in the Distributed Robotics Lab at CSAIL are developing a new process through which the average person could design, customize and print a specialized robot in a matter of hours.
In a new video featured on Science Nation, Rus explains how her team is developing a platform that would allow an individual to identify a household problem that needs assistance, then head to a local printing store to select a blueprint from a library of robotic designs, and then customize an easy-to-use robotic device that could solve the problem. The team has already produced several printable robots, including SEG, an origami-inspired Segway robot, and a small robot that can pinch and grasp objects, which might prove useful to a person on crutches or someone in a wheelchair.
"My goal is to make robots more capable and more autonomous," said Rus in the Science Nation video. "In other words to bring machines into everyday life in such a way that our lives will be improved and enhanced by these machines."
Read more about Rus' work with printable robots here: http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/1717.


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What's going on with the radio plays?
Friday, 10 October 1997 - Reported by Marcus
Now a new wrinkle has entered the story, as David Rodan (co-writer of Dimensions In Time) stated at a Doctor Who weekend in late July that he had authored a Seventh Doctor/Ace/Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart radio play which had been scuppered by BBC Radio 2, after the actors involved had signed their contracts. The six-episode play was entitled Nuclear Kiss, and was a "Tom Clancy-style thriller" which would have seen the death of Lethbridge-Stewart at Nicholas Courtney's request.
Meanwhile, New Zealanders have the opportunity to hear 1985's Sixth Doctor/Peri radio play Slipback, which began airing on Saturday, September 20th.